Intolerance Quote by John Irving Download Open image ““Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.”” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intolerance
“I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.” — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
“...not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I don't like peoples, only persons among peoples. I've developed an allergy against being outnumbered, a price for originality.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“I've found we hate most in others what we can't stand about ourselves.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“or, worst of all, that we’re the sort of people other people just don’t like.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.” — Harriette Arnow Copy Share Image
“If we can accept things just the way they are, we’re not going to be greatly upset by anything.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“Intolerance is a failed master of non-existent reason.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
“Intolerance is a failed master of non-existent reason.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image